CLITOCYBE 279 



843. C. conglobata (Vitt.) Bres. (= Agaricus pes caprae Fr., Agaricus 

 humosus Fr., Agaricus tumulosus Kalchbr. sec. Bres.) Bres. 

 Fung. Trid. t. 32. Conglobata, crowded together. 



Caespitose. P. 5-10 cm., umber, becoming blackish, or spotted with 

 cinereous, or grey, or becoming pale and livid cinnamon, fleshy, fragile 

 at first, then tough, convex, then expanded, plane, or depressed, 

 sometimes umbilicate, often irregular and lobed, dry, margin at first 

 involute, white pruinose. St. 49 x 1-2 cm., white, or greyish, equal, 

 or attenuated downwards, connate at the tuberous base, sometimes 

 branched, fioccosely pulverulent, then smooth. Gills whitish cinereous, 

 or cream colour, crowded, sinuate, adnate, or decurrent. Flesh white, 

 greyish at the circumference, fragile, then tough. Spores white, globose, 

 5-6 p (somewhat angular with age according to Bresadola). Smell 

 faint, of new meal. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods. Sept. Nov. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



844. C. tumulosa (Kalchbr.) Fr. (= Clitocybe conglobata (Vitt.) Bres., 



Tricholoma humosum Fr. sec. Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. t. 5. 



Tumulosa, like a mound. 



Caespitose. P. 2-5-8 cm., dark umber, becoming pale lurid fuscous, 

 conical, then expanded and umbonate, or depressed round the umbo, 

 smooth; margin sometimes repand and torn. St. 2-8 x -5-2 cm., 

 pallid, fleshy, subequal, either attenuated, or ventricosely thickened at 

 the connate, half-buried base, curved, ascending, floccosely pruinose, 

 then smooth. Gills white, then pale cinereous, adnate, or decurrent. 

 Flesh white, livid, or cinereous at the circumference when moist, thick 

 at the disc. Spores white, oval, 6-7 x 4/A. Smell faint, of new meal. 

 Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



845. C. connata (Schum.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Mang. t. 37. 



Connata, joined together. 



Caespitose. P. 5-10 cm., white, slightly tinged with ochre, or bistre, 

 convex, pruinose. St. 3-6 x -5-1 cm., white, connate at the swollen 

 base, mealy. Gills glaucous white, then cream colour, adnate, or decur- 

 rent, arcuate, distant. Flesh white, firm, elastic. Spores white, 

 globose, 6 x 5/n, minutely punctate. Smell pleasant. Parks, and 

 woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



846. C. pergamena Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1132, t. 643. 



Pergamena, parchment. 



Caespitose. P. 3-8 cm., ochraceous, whitish at the margin, sub- 

 cartilaginous, convex, then plane, obtusely umbonate, smooth. St. 

 5-12 x 1-2 cm., concolorous, equal, ascending, apex punctate squamose, 

 cuticle cartilaginous. Gills white, broadly adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, 4 mm. broad, rather crowded. Flesh yellowish, thick at the 



